The Shakespeare Book
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180 S ince their father’s death, Orlando has been kept at home and denied education by his older brother Oliver. When Oliver hea ...
181 and he joins their band. Orlando, pining for Rosalind, hangs poems to her on the trees. Touchstone and Corin compare lifesty ...
182 A s You Like It is one of Shakespeare’s most enduringly popular plays. It forays into the beautiful Forest of Arden for an i ...
183 There may not be much plot, but there is a feast of romance and comedy—poems and songs, wit and banter, all spilling from ch ...
184 AS YOU LIKE IT philosophers, and singers. The pastoral world is an imaginary golden age or Garden of Eden, a peaceful and un ...
THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN’S MAN 185 Ambiguous Rosalind At the very heart of the play’s ambiguity is the character of Rosalind. In the ...
186 AS YOU LIKE IT the sight” of him (4.1.205–206). Indeed, she is more in love with him at this moment than he is with her, des ...
THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN’S MAN 187 Jaques is perhaps missing the point just as much as Orlando with his poems on trees. At the very ...
THE SLINGS AND ARROWS OF OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE HAMLET (1599–1601) ...
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190 I n Elsinore castle in Denmark, King Claudius grieves for the death of the former king, his brother. He hastily marries Gert ...
191 his old college friends, whom he now distrusts. Instead, he focuses on the arrival at court of traveling players, and orders ...
192 H amlet is Shakespeare’s longest play, with perhaps the most challenging lead role. It is also his most enduringly popular t ...
193 social, and domestic. Although this may seem justifiable, prioritizing Laertes and his wish to travel abroad above Hamlet’s ...
194 HAMLET “melancholy” and “unmanly grief,” with “A heart unfortified, a mind impatient” (1.2.96). He is, in other words, unsta ...
THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN’S MAN 195 the play to test his mother’s conscience. Indeed, much of Hamlet’s melancholy stems from anger wi ...
196 Ophelia is drowned. Gertrude and King Hamlet are poisoned. Polonius is stabbed through a tapestry. HAMLET The tragedy spiral ...
THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN’S MAN 197 hero is forced to compromise his own conscience in order to carry out an attack on the original c ...
YOUTH S A STUFF WILL NOT ENDURE TWELFTH NIGHT (1601) ...
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